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Sometimes, we lose track in life whenever we see people around us as a competitor.
Avoid thinking that way or you'll end up unhappy and unsatisfied with life.
Life is not a road of competition, but rather a ride to your destination. Just like taking turns for every ride, we have our own phase and plot twist.
Stop comparing your life with other people. Enjoy and live life to the fullest through the way you know it.

As you start your day,
Think of all the things you want to do.
Give yourself another chance.
Forget the things that hurt yersterday; Do not be to hard on yourself.

Today is another day,
God blessed you with another chance to start all over again.
Never be afraid, take the chance and start eliminating to your mind all the things that hurt.
Anyway, what matters today is not the things that cause you pain,
it's yourself, the people, and little things that gives you another reason to be happy and to live a life with a purpose.

Have a great day ahead!
And remember that you are not alone in your life's battles. Keep the faith! :)

As another year starts, let us learn to forgive ourselves and never be afraid to start all over again.
Failures are inevitable and so are the challenges.
Take one step at a time and learn from your mistakes. And most importantly,
BE KIND,
CHOOSE LOVE,
and be THE CHANGE.
The world needs someone like you and so are the people around you.

Last year, I lost a close friend because of being a coward.
I lost a friend because I wasn't able to protect our friendship from those masked people trying to break our friendship.
What breaks my heart the most is that I didn't know that friend of mine has a major depression.
I always try to make things up but it seems that I have been the cause of her pain so badly.
Today, I saw her post on scoial media about wanting and having to treat her sickness and I'm really happy about it.
I just blame myself for being such a coward and a very bad friend back then.
I may not be able to travel back in time to make things right but at least I've learned from this experience and I promise myself to alway...

For 2019, let us not be afraid to take risks we've tried to skip the previous years.
Let's live to the fullest and seize every opportunities that will come.
Let us not compare and be content.
Let us give unlimited love and accept it.
Let us learn to see the beauty on every situations.
Let us not regret decisions for everything happens for a reason.
Let us forgive ourselves from what happened in the previous year and celebrate another year full of hope and love knowing that everyday is a chance to make things better and be the person you always wanted to be.

Today, I feel so restless. A while ago, while I was on the road riding a three wheeled public transportation, it rained hard.
There's no cover on the sides to where I'm riding at. Honestly, I kinda feel bad because my outfit and other things with me are starting to get wet due to the heavy rain. So, I tried to turn to the driver whom can I ask for any sort of cover.

As I turned to him, I saw an aged man who's soaked in the rain.
All the time I'm complaining to myself with my clothes or my bag getting wet, I didn't realize how the man suffered just to get through his job.

In life, we usually complain to all our problems and sufferings. But never use that reason ...

I wonder, if I'm the one who closes a door, will it still willing to open up for me?

Today, I decided to write about my thoughts and curiosity on the things I've encountered this year.

Honestly, there are a lot of things going in my head since I resigned from my job. All the 'What Ifs', the confused feeling of regret, the 'What will happen now' feeling and mixed emotions of fear, excitement, and confusion. Even it was more than half a year ago, I don't know why I can't help but think of all these things.

On another note, today, I finished one of my research paper in Grad School. I was thankful for gaini...

"Happy Birthday. Thank you for being kind and sweet. The world needs people like you"

Today is my birthday.
It was a normal tuesday.
Nothing seems to be special.
Nothing seems to matter.
Not until I opened this greeting card with a message that struck my existence.
I wrote this letter for you and for me.
So when a time comes you feel useless and worthless, This letter could remind you that you were born to this world for a purpose. Your existence has a meaning. You may not realize the things you're contributing to this world, but trust me, "The world needs people like you".
Only you.
And no one else.

Have you ever encountered that feeling of regretting something in the past, but at the same time, you're not regretting all the things that happened after that specific critical decision you've made in your life?

Dear 23 yr old self and to those who were in the same boat as me,

It's really difficult to understand life at this moment of time, decisions that aren't carefully thought of, regrets, career rejections, love rejections, financial problems, and life full of "what ifs".
Even though you really don't know what will happen next, even if how many times those regrets crossed over your mind, and how many rejections you got, you always have the time to get up and MOVE FORWARD.

One of the hardest feeling in life, is saying goodbye.
It pains the most when you know that this might be or this is definitely the LAST.
Eventually it happens to all of us at some points of our life.

When that time comes,
Always seize the moment.
Feel it. LIVE for the moment, eventhough it hurts.
Never take things for granted.

And most of all, make sure never to look back once it had passed.
You can take a glance on it, But NEVER dwell on to it.
This is very important especially when we unexpectedly get attached to something or to someone.

Always remember,
Life is a ONE WAY ride.

Make sure not to miss anything ahead
Because of trying to look back to save the feeling you had in the past.
...

I hope on the day you'll first see me,
You'll like me.
Not because of how I look,
Not because of my body,
Not because I can sing,
Not because of my hair color and OOTD,
Not because of having no one beside you that day except me.

I hope on the day you'll first see me,
You'll like me.
For no reason.
For you think I'm just lovely.
For you think I was different from all your other girls.

I hope that on the day you'll first see me,
The weather is good.
The timing is right.
I already learned to love myself.
And so are you.

I hope that on the day you'll first see me,
Is the day you've met your other half.
The day that will change your life.
The day that you'll always remember.
...

It's been a while.
I have been like that glass of water.
Half-empty.
Half-Full.
Empty with words from the heart.
Full of words from that restless mind.
Saving every drop.
Being thirsty for every taste.
Before this night ends,
I would like to share this empty words, to empty out my mind.
For I would like to end this life lived in HALF
And to live FULL tomorrow.

Goodbye, thoughts that haunts.
Let's not meet again.
Let good memories take care of you from TODAY onwards.

May we all go to where our heart wants to go.
May we never wait for the perfect timing for it is always 'now'.
May we never fear the word 'alone' for we're not created for it.
May we learn how to live, love, be loved and never get tired of it.

Happy New Year everyone! May 2017 bring us happiness and more great memories. 🎆🎆🎆

Sometimes, there's this time in your life wherein all the bad memories keeps knocking into your mind at a random day, at a random time, at a random hour.
A time where all seems to go back to how it used to be.
A time where all those "moving on" stuff seems to be on the far away corner.

When that time comes,
Do not be afraid.

Feat not of letting go.
Be courageous in making new memories.
Always keep in mind that every beginning has its challenging side.

Let me remind you again in case you've forgotten,
You've conquered it once,
And surely, you'll slay it this time also,
Even a hundred times better than how you did it in the past.

I remember that one sunny saturday, I was hanging out with one of my favorite office friend in a cozy food place.
I remember asking for a tissue after eating from the waiter and he gave us one that has letter 'K' with it which is also the first letter of my name.
I was amazed. My friend told me to keep it as a souvenir. I chose to keep it indeed even I knew that it was a silly thing to keep something that's very easy to decay. Many times I see it in my drawer, but chose to still keep it for unknown reason.

One weekend, I'm quite feeling emotional in my room since that friend of mine will be leaving our office already.
Then while sorting things out of my cabinet, I foun...

That one day wherein you're overwhelmed with a lot of feelings. A feeling of expectation. A feeling of pure happiness. A feeling of sadness maybe. A feeling of maturity. A feeling of rebirth. A feeling of a brand new you. A feeling of sunlight within the darkness that overpowers you. It seems to be a goodbye feeling, and is indeed a welcome feeling.

I used to ask..
What is my PURPOSE in life?
What do i really want to do?
Why do other people found their talent and dreams earlier
Yet, here I am stucked with my life
Stucked with the thinking of what am I gonna be
Stucked with endless search of things I really wanted to pursue.

'BLESSING'

I may not realized my real purpose but I found another meaning for that 'PURPOSE'.
As I proceeded with my life trying out new things..
Diving in to things I don't even know how to start in the first place..
Sticking to opportunities that come and go even I knew it wasn't the one I was looking for..
I was told that I was a BLESSING.
Words from people who already found their purpose..
Words fro...

That moment in the past when you think a lot about how some people can stand being so RUDE and insensitive to the feelings of others.And yet you are here now, coming to a realization that at one point in time, you've also become one of them.You've once become a distraction to a peace of mind, a regret that haunts, and a pain to a heart who once loved.

It's not that I don't deserve you, But it's just that I want to save you from the RUDE and WRONG person,like ME.

That moment when you realize love isn't everything
That moment when you realize that rain is always possible everyday
That moment when you realize roses aren't always red
That moment when you realize thorns can also be inside a heart and not only on plants
That moment when you realize you still have a long way to go

That moment when you've encountered LIFE as it is...
That's the moment you'll realize how difficult you've went through yet you're still here reading this very letter and being a stranger to what would come next tomorrow, but just have that certainty that no matter what happens, everything would be all right.
That moment when life taught you that when it's not yet alright, it mea...